MUSIC
John Maus has made a few recordings with outsider-popster Ariel Pink, and while to the unitiated his new record We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves can sound like a knock-off of his friend’s work, it still contains plenty of pleasures. “Quantum Leap” sounds like a chillwave spin on the erudite post-punk of Ultravox; other songs have a nice Italo disco feel. It’s all drenched in faux-nostalgic hiss, and Maus’ vocals fall somewhere between Bernard Sumner’s and Syd Barrett’s. Groovy, if that’s the kind of thing you’re into. 8:30 p.m. at Black Cat.
BOOKS
Polymathic economist, reviewer of local ethnic restaurants, and Marginal Utility blogger Tyler Cowen discusses his new book The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better. 7 p.m. at Politics & Prose. Free.
FILM
The documentary Höllentour, or Hell on Wheels, delves into the culture and athletic challenge of the Tour de France—-although it’s from 2004, before the sport became subject to wide scrutiny regarding doping. 6:30 p.m. at Goethe-Institut.
’80S APOLOGISTS
The Karate Kid at 4:30 p.m. at AFI Silver, Back to the Future Part II at 9:20 p.m. Get dinner in between!
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